The hydroxyl group (-OH) is attached to carbon 1 below the pentose base.
Glycogen is the analogue of starch, a less branched glucose polymer in plants and is commonly referred to as ANIMAl STARCH, having a similar structure to amylopictin. Starch is naturally abundant carbohydrate are also known as PLANT STARCH or GLUCOSAN.
Glycogen is another molecule in humans that is similar to starch. Both starch and glycogen are polysaccharides made up of glucose monomers, but glycogen is the storage form of glucose in animals, including humans.
Polysaccharides are long chains of monosaccharides linked by glycosidic bonds. Three important polysaccharides, starch, glycogen, and cellulose, are composed ofglucose. Starch and glycogen serve as short-term energy stores in plants and animals, respectively. They range in structure from linear to highly branched.
Starch in plants. Both glycogen in animals and starch in plants are polysaccharides that serve as storage forms of glucose. They are both branched polymers of glucose that can be broken down into glucose units when needed for energy.
Iodine test forms a complex with both starch and glycogen, resulting in a color change. This complex is responsible for the blue color observed with starch. However, glycogen has a more branched structure than starch, causing a different interaction with iodine that leads to a red color instead of blue.
Glycogen. Starch is exclusive to plant storage of carbohydrates.
Glycogen is the proper name for animal starch. It is stored int the livers and muscles of animals. It can also be found in certain kinds of fungi and bacteria.
Starch is found potatoes, not Glycogen. Glycogen is the plant equivalent of animal glycogen. A potato has starch but no glycogen; muscle cells have glycogen but no starch. The starch we eat is broken into glucose in the stomach/small intest and then reassembled in the muscle cells as glycogen.
2 polysaccharides found in plants are starch and cellulose. :)
Glycogen is the body's storage of energy. It is a starch.
glycogen
In humans, glycogen is stored in the liver and muscles. It is sometimes called animal starch.